This artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet’s equator. With a ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

The distant world WASP-121b is already bizarre. It's football-shaped and rains gems. Now, astronomers leveraged the power of four telescopes to observe what's transpiring deep inside this giant ...

Tiny World producer Plimsoll is making an extreme natural history series for ITV. Extreme Planet Earth will see “underscore the high-stakes battle for wildlife survival in an era of extreme weather, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a distant exoplanet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

What is a planet? -- How did the planets form? -- How do planets move? -- What planet orbits the sun the fastest? -- Why is Venus the solar system's hottest planet? -- How fast is Earth moving? -- Why ...

(Nanowerk News) Macquarie University astronomers have tracked an extreme planet's orbital decay, confirming it is spiralling towards its star in a cosmic death dance that could end in three possible ...

ITV has commissioned the six-part series Extreme Planet Earth from Plimsoll Productions (A Year on Planet Earth, A Real Bug’s Life). Three years in the making, the series underscores the high-stakes ...